How Media Influences Women

Part I of Essay
We, the American public are hit from every imaginable direction every waking moment of our lives by slick advertising agencies trying to coerce us into or tell us why we need to buy their products. Their products will make us happier or thinner, or prettier. The advertiser ....

Part II of Essay
.... they are perhaps older than they look or if we were to know their real age we might say something (hopefully to ourselves) like “jeez, she looks a lot older than that!” The media is really the one at work that shapes a lot of our attitudes and beliefs. They might not necessarily be healthy attitudes and beliefs but they are the ones that have been shoved in front of our faces from the day we were born. Believe me, they know how powerful and influential they (the media) can be. The most disturbing thing to me about advertising is the ideal ....